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Gabby Giffords Group Takes Aim At Republican Senators Mitch McConnell And...
With nearly a week’s distance from the U.S. Senate vote to defeat the Joe Manchin/Pat Toomey background check bill, and on the heels of polling that includes some attempt to measure the effect of that...
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Zoinks! New Poll Shows More Backlash Against Senate Defeat Of Background Checks
Evidence continues to mount that the U.S. Senate’s sabotage of the Toomey/Manchin background check bill could come back to haunt those who engineered it. Last week, a Public Policy Polling survey...
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Polls: Interest In Gun Debate Increases Even After Boston Bombing, Guns As...
A raft of recent polls has served to undercut the conservative narrative that the general public’s interest in the debate over gun violence is waning in breadth and intensity. Public Policy Polling...
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WTF? Even Americans Who Didn’t Want Background Checks To Pass Want Background...
Welcome back to an all-polling May Day here in my corner of Mediaite. While every recent public opinion survey has contained overwhelmingly good news for fans of keeping guns away from terrorists, one...
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Piers Morgan Clashes With Ben Ferguson Over Background Checks, Infants...
Piers Morgan brought conservative radio host Ben Ferguson onto his show tonight to take on the civil liberties debate emerging in the wake of Boston, but it quickly turned into a battle over background...
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Poll: Two More Senators Poisoned By ‘No’ Vote On Background Checks, ‘Yes’...
As evidence continues to mount that the U.S. Senate’s sabotage of the Toomey/Manchin background check bill could come back to haunt those who engineered it, you can add Senators David Vitter (R-LA, NRA...
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Kelly Ayotte Dishonestly Evades Another Town Hall Question About Background...
After being confronted at a town hall meeting by the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH, NRA rating=A) faced another tough question...
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Dick-tory Dance: RNC Features Grieving Newtown Mom In Despicable New Ad
Even as poll after poll shows that obstruction of the Toomey/Manchin background check bill is more poisonous than a dart frog with an attitude, the Republican National Committee has decided to release...
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Poll: Voters Prepared To Punish 6 More Senators For Background Check ‘No’ Vote
Even as the cable news networks have largely moved on from the topic, the issue of background checks on all firearm sales continues to figure heavily in the minds of voters. In the weeks following the...
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Washington Post Misleads Readers: ‘Democrats, Not Republicans’ Paying Price...
Everybody loves a winner, and the mainstream press has been betting on the gun lobby for a good long time, now. Despite evidence to the contrary, they have been fixing their narrative to a defeat of...
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Jay Carney Says Ask Republicans About Gun Control: ‘The Problem Here is Not...
The mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard has revived the media’s interest in gun regulation, and while the President failed to explicitly reference the issue in Monday’s remarks on the unfolding...
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Recalled CO State Sen. Tells Chris Hayes Navy Yard Shooter Probably Wouldn’t...
The horrific mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard has reignited, to some degree, the debate over gun regulation, but the still-unfolding facts around the tragedy have been confounding to news...
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President Obama Tells Telemundo Navy Yard Shooting Shows Need for Tighter...
As Monday’s mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard kick-starts the dormant debate over gun regulation, and facts about deceased Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis continue to unfold, President Obama...
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Report: Navy Yard Shooter Aaron Alexis Test-Fired AR-15, State Law Prevented...
Early reporting on the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard created controversy over deceased shooter Aaron Alexis‘ supposed use of an AR-15, reporting which was later retracted. On Tuesday night,...
View ArticleBrian Kilmeade Challenges Dana Loesch: ‘You’re Not Against Universal...
During an appearance this morning on Fox & Friends, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch waffled an answer to Brian Kilmeade‘s question about where she stands on background checks for gun owners. Loesch...
View ArticleTrump’s ‘All in Favor’ of ‘Background Checks Like We’ve Never Had Before’
President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday morning that he’s “all in favor” of “background checks like we’ve never had before.” “I think background checks are important. I don’t want to put guns...
View ArticleTrish Regan Calls Out ‘Inept Congress,’ Fact-Checks NRA Talking Points on...
Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan pulled no punches in a fiery segment where she called out an “inept Congress” for failing to act on gun violence and accused it of being beholden to lobbying groups...
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NRA Chief Wayne Lapierre Called Trump to Warn Him About Background Checks:...
During a White House lawn press spray, President Donald Trump told assembled reporters that he was “all in favor” of “background checks like we’ve never had before.” “I think background checks are...
View ArticleTrump Defends Backing Away From Background Checks: ‘It’s Not the Gun That...
President Donald Trump, talking to a pool of reporters Tuesday, backed away from a call for stronger background check legislation, calling such measures a “slippery slope.” “The people that — a lot of...
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Poll Shows ‘No’ Vote On Background Checks Political Poison For Senator Kelly...
In the aftermath of the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the Manchin/Toomey background check bill, people on both sides of the gun reform debate have been casting about for some indication of what the...
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